"If you want total transformation,
without surrender it is not going to be possible."
Sahaj Marg has a revolutionary concept that the individual
change alone can ensure the social change of a lasting nature,
lasting structure; because ultimately if man's character
as the individual is not changed, he is not moralized, made
more moral, made an ethical human being, no amount of cosmic
clearing by the Mahapurushas (Saints) of the world is going
to have any lasting effect. It will be there for the nonce.
So let us remember that in the hands of an individual, in
the process of self development, in the achievement of his
individual goal lies the sole, according to us souls of
society, possibility of a future where, even children can
walk erect, proud, without being molested.
My Master has taught us that if we are serious about bringing
about lasting changes in society, we must apply all our
efforts to changing the individuals of which society is
after all composed. Society is only an agglomeration of
individuals. If one wishes to feed a hundred persons, or
a thousand - what goes by the name of mass feeding - one
has to feed all of them individually. In the same way, if
society is to be transformed, the individuals must first
be transformed.
My Master has stated emphatically that there is no other way of bringing
about lasting change. All other efforts may bring about some temporary palliation
of a situation, but nothing more than that. His clarion call to humanity
is that if we want external harmony, we must work upon ourselves to bring
about inner harmony within. If we want to live in a nonviolent world where
anyone can walk about any time of the day or night without fear of being
molested, then we must work upon ourselves and eradicate all the violent
tendencies lying buried within us. If we want peace outside, we must
first create peace within ourselves, and the more we are able to do
this successfully within, the more we see that success mirrored in the external
world. The external world is nothing but a mirror image of our inner world.
Create within, what you desire to have in the external world. There is no
other way. Therefore self-transformation holds the key to social transformation,
whether at the level of the small village or of the whole world.
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